Year+11-13+Thematic+Studies

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 * Schools should adhere to guidelines available from the Office of Film and Literature Classification regarding how films should be chosen and used in schools.**

Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Copella Macbeth - William Shakespeare Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald ||
 * ~ Theme ||~ Texts ||~ Comment ||
 * < __**Year 12 Gothic Horror**__ ||< * Wuthering Heights
 * The Turn of the Screw
 * The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Frankenstein
 * Dracula
 * Jekyl and Hyde
 * Northanger Abbey
 * Jany Eyre
 * Other Voices, Other Rooms Truman Capote
 * The Sound and The Fury' William Faulkner
 * The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
 * Interview with the Vampire' Anne Rice
 * American Gothic Tales Joyce Carol Oates - includes many of the classic short stories like 'Sleepy Hollow' and Charlotte Gilman Perkins
 * The Yellow Wallpaper ||  ||
 * **__Growing up__** || * Balibasha - Witi Ihimaera
 * To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
 * Lord of the Flies - William Golding
 * The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
 * Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
 * The Book Thief - Marcus Zusack
 * Montana 1948 - Larry Watson
 * Huckeberry Finn - Mart Twain
 * Breaking Away - Peter Yates
 * The Hills - Patricia Grace
 * Night - Elie Wiesel
 * The Basketball Diaries - Scott Kalvert
 * October Sky - Joe Johnston
 * The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
 * To The Is-land - Janet Frame ||  ||
 * **__ The Rebel __** || * Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
 * A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
 * Rebel without a Cause - Nicholas Ray
 * The Matrix - Wachowski Brothers
 * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
 * The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
 * Malcolm X - Spike Lee
 * The Destructors - Graham Greene
 * Valkyrie - Bryan Singer
 * Stone of Destiny - Ian Hamilton (novel and film) ||  ||
 * **__ Madness __** || * Hamlet - Shakespeare
 * King Lear - Shakespeare
 * One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
 * The Crucible - Arthur Miller
 * Owls Do Cry - Janet Frame
 * A Beautiful Mind - Ron Howard
 * Twelve Monkeys - Terry Gilliam
 * The Tell-Tale Heart (short story) - Edgar Allan Poe || The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
 * **__Freedom and Comformity__** || * Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
 * Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
 * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
 * The Crucible - Arthur Miller
 * The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont
 * A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
 * The Matrix - Wachowski Brothers
 * Dead Poets' Society - Peter Weir
 * A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn ||  ||
 * **__Family__** || * In My Father's Den - Mauruce Gee
 * Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
 * Hamlet - Shakespeare
 * Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
 * The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera
 * Road to Perdition - Sam Mendes
 * The Merchant of Venice – Shakespeare
 * Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
 * American Beauty - Sam Mendes
 * The Book Thief - Marcus Zusack
 * The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ||  ||
 * **__Revenge__** || * The Crucible - Arthur Miller
 * One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Keny Kesey
 * St. Agnes Stand - Thomas Eidson
 * The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
 * What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? - Alan Duff
 * Kill Bill - Quentin Tarentino
 * Road to Perdition - Sam Mendes
 * A Vendetta - Guy de Maupassant ||  ||
 * **__Leadership__** || * Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
 * Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
 * Richard III - Shakespeare
 * Henry V - Shakespeare
 * King Lear - Shakespeare
 * All the King's Horsesl - Kurt Vonnegut
 * A Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
 * Invictus - Clint Eastwood ||  ||
 * **__Sacrifice And Integrity__** || * The Crucible - Arthur Miller
 * Schindler's Ark - Thomas Kenneally
 * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
 * the Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont
 * St Agnes' Stand - Thomas Eidson
 * A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt
 * Good Night and Good Luck - George Clooney
 * The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
 * The Aeneid - Virgil ||  ||
 * __**Good And Evil**__ || * A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
 * The Crucible - Arthur Miller
 * Constantine - Francis Lawrence
 * Richard III - Shakespeare
 * The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
 * Macbeth - Shakespeare
 * The Killer Angels - Michael Schaara
 * Poems of William Blake
 * Lord of the Rings - J RR Tolkien
 * Paradise Lost - John Milton
 * A History of Violence - David Croneneberg ||  ||
 * **__Friendship And Love__** || * Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
 * The Merchant of Venice - Alan Duff
 * Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
 * Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
 * What Becomes of the Broken Hearted - Alan Duff
 * Othello - Shakespeare
 * Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Berniere
 * Hamlet - Shakespeare
 * Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
 * Shakespeare's Sonnets
 * Poems by Sam Hunt ||  ||
 * __**Hardship and Survival**__ || * The Crucible - Arthur Miller
 * Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
 * One Flew Over The Cruckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
 * In Harm's Way - Doug Stanton
 * It's not about the Bike - Lance Armstrong
 * Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
 * The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
 * Lord of the Files - William Golding
 * Between A Rock and a Hard Place - Aron Ralston
 * Edgar Rice Shaun of the Dead
 * The Road - Cormac Macarthy
 * We Are Marshall - McGinty ||  ||
 * **__Race / the treatment of minorities__** || * Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
 * Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
 * One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (minorites not race)
 * The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
 * Othello - Shakespeare
 * Benjamin Zephaniah - Poems by Michael Jackson (New Zealand poet)
 * Mississippi Burning - Alan Parker
 * Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
 * Montana 1948 - Larry Watson
 * Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
 * Rabbit Proof Fence - Phillip Noyce
 * Ballad of Birmingham - poem
 * District 9 - Neill Blomkamp
 * A Dry White Season - Andre Brink
 * Translations - Brian Friel (play)
 * The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd ||  ||
 * __**Father / Son Relationships**__ || * Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
 * Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
 * Road to Perdition - Sam Mendes
 * Hamlet - Shakespeare
 * In My Father's Den - Maurice Gee
 * Father and Son - Owen Marshall
 * Father and Son - Cat Stevens
 * Tangi - Patricia Grace
 * On My First Sonne - Ben Jonson
 * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
 * Billy Elliot - Stephen Daldry
 * Death of a Salesman - Arthur miller
 * A Histroy of Violence - David Cronenberg
 * The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
 * The Road - Cormac McCarthy
 * Digging - Seamus Heaney (poem) ||  ||
 * __**War**__ || * Henry V - Shakespeare
 * Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Loius de Berniere
 * Poems by WWI poets (Sassoon, Owen etc)
 * Tu - Patricia Grace
 * Saving Private Ryan - Steven Spielberg
 * Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
 * Regeneration - Pat Barker
 * Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick
 * Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
 * Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
 * All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
 * The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
 * War Horse - Steven Spielberg
 * Once on Chunuk Bair - Maurice Shadbolt (play and film) ||  ||
 * __** Depictions of Women **__ || * Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
 * Hamlet - Shakespeare
 * The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
 * Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
 * Richard III - Shakespeare
 * In My Father's Den - Maurice Gee
 * One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey
 * The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
 * The Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin
 * The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
 * Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
 * Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick ||  ||
 * __ **Dystopia** __ || * A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
 * 1984 - George Orwell
 * Animal Farm - George Orwell
 * The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
 * Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
 * Blade Runner - Ridley Scott
 * The Matrix - Wachowski Brothers
 * Minority Report - Steven Spielberg
 * V for Vendetta - Wachowski Brothers
 * Children of Men - P D JAmes
 * The Road - Cormac McCarthy
 * Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (also a film)
 * Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo del Torro ||  ||
 * __**What does it mean to be human?**__ || * A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
 * Blade Runner - Ridley Scott
 * The Matrix - Wachowski Brothers
 * Hamlet - Shakespeare
 * The Road - Corman McCarthy
 * Genesis - Bernard Beckett
 * Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro ||  ||
 * Power & Control || ====- There's a German film, "The Lives of Others" - has subtitles but is very====

- Lord of the Flies
==== - Equilibrium ====

- The Last King of Scotland
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- The Laboratory
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